NBC News have relaunched their popular Election Confessions project to coincide with the US midterm election.

The project enables the electorate to anonymously submit their inner-most thoughts and views on the political event for publication.

During the 2016 presidential election, NBC News received over 250,000 submissions through text, phone, and handwritten submissions, presented on a webpage of sticky-notes.

This time around, several thousand submissions have been sent in over the month since it began re-promoting the project, presented through a scrollable list of pull-quotes that viewers can browse, with some sticky-notes resurfacing.

New monitoring technology by POLITICO Europe will offer a ‘deeper insight' into EU legislation, stakeholders and policy developments that can become a great resource for reporters.

Launched in September, Pro Intelligence is the latest product of the political news organisation’s premium subscription service, POLITICO Pro.

Pro Intelligence is informed by a database of more than 24 million votes, 700,000 amendments, 16,000 legislators, and 7 million searchable items from the UK, Germany and France, archiving back to the first European Parliament session in 1979, with more countries to come.

In July 2018, a distressing video showing the murder of two women and two young children began to circulate on social media. The footage shows a group of soldiers leading them down a dusty footpath, blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times.

After speculation online, the BBC's new investigative unit, Africa Eye, took it upon themselves to look use the visual clues in the video to find out where the atrocity took place.

In this week's podcast, we hear the steps the team took to debunk the video using both traditional and more modern digital journalism techniques, and how your news organisation can use open source investigative approaches to produce compelling digital stories.

Book your place for newsrewired now. The tickets (£190+VAT) give you access to the full-day conference on Wednesday 7 November 2018 and include lunch and refreshments, as well as after-event networking drinks and a delegate ‘goodie’ bag.

Why not treat yourself to an extra day's training before the conference? Journalism.co.uk will be hosting a full day of training the day before the conference, running two hands-on workshops at The Bridge in London.